Essential primary health services

Multisectoral collaboration is essential for advancing primary health care (PHC). In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), limited institutional capacities, governance issues, and inadequate stakeholder engagement impede multisectoral collaboration. India faces similar challenges, especially at the meso-level (districts and subdistricts).

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The health insurance system in Indonesia was transformed in 2014 to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). The effective implementation of essential primary health services through UHC has resulted inefficient healthcare utilisation, which is reflected in the health-seeking behaviour of the community

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Taking experiences of low resource setting into account, upgrading the quality and coverage of safe motherhood services (including neonatal care) will have the largest payoff in averting deaths and reducing disability among women and children in Bangladesh. For scaling up of these tasks, building a functioning primary healthcare system from community level to the first referral-level facilities is essential. Particular emphasis should be placed on developing human resources for health (HRH) in this sector, e.g.

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The health system is composed of the public sector, the for-profit private sector and the non-profit private sector. Health care services are provided mainly through the public sector network (NHS), which relies on 1277 health facilities (HF), organized in 4 levels, with a total of 15 877 beds6 and around 26 000 health workers (Table 4). Level I offers essential primary care services through 1224 HF (urban and rural health centres and health posts) representing 96% of all national HF.

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Governments in developing countries need to spend more money on essential public services if they are to have a serious impact on poverty. Take the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of targets for halving extreme poverty, providing universal primary education, halting the spread of HIV and AIDS and much more by 2015. Ambitious, yes, but achievable. To meet many of the MDGs, governments will need to hire more public sector employees, from teachers and doctors to agricultural extension workers.

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Governments should take a health systems approach when initiating and scaling-up comprehensive cervical cancer prevention and control programmes to avoid establishing stand-alone, disease-specific initiatives and to ensure long-term sustainability.

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Disparities in access to essential basic services, such as sanitation, clean water, health, education and access to the judiciary system, are fundamental inequities that can produce lifelong inequalities and deep-seated feelings of injustice. These inequities extend to things like access to information: while access to communication technologies, including the internet, may seem like a luxury, in reality it means that while most young people in developed countries, and the wealthier young people in poor countries, can obtain the information they seek, others cannot (see Figure 1).

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In addition to the effect this may have on the woman, this could damage staff morale and is a serious challenge to recruitment and retention of midwives whose primary professional motivation is to care for women22. Looking to the maternity service of 2020, it is likely that the number of women with complex medical and obstetric conditions will continue to rise.

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Vertical integration. Although the delivery of health care is concentrated in the vertically integrated medical care sector (organized around primary, secondary, and tertiary care), many other essential child health service programs are located in the public and population health sectors (Women, Infants, and Children, or WIC; Head Start; and Early Head Start).

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achieve universal primary education (Mdg 2). Gender parity in education is still to be achieved. It is essential because educated girls and women improve prospects for the whole family, helping to break the cycle of poverty. In Africa, for example, children whose mothers have been educated for at least five years are 40% more likely to live beyond the age of five. Schools can serve as a point of contact for women and children, allowing health-related information to be shared, services offered and health literacy promoted. ...

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To monitor provider use of language services, health plans are requiring that providers follow plan-specific processes to obtain language services, such as calling an 800 number to receive telephonic interpretation. However, it is unclear how plans will monitor providers to determine if they are using these services when appropriate. Staff at one health plan indicated that enrollee grievance filings will be the plan’s primary method for monitoring compliance. Importance of Collaboration Between Stakeholders. Collaboration between stakeholders has been essential to this effort.

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